•                    9.6% monthly increase in total population in August 2024 compared to previous month.
•                    0.5% monthly increase in commercial banks' total credit facilities compared to July 2024.
•                    1.2% monthly increase in total number of properties sold in August 2024 compared to July 2024.
 

The National Planning Council has released the 128^th issue of (Qatar; Monthly Statistics) bulletin; a series of statistical newsletters released on a monthly basis.  In this issue, we highlighted the most important statistical changes that occurred in the country during August 2024 in addition to extracts from the results of the 2020 Census.

One of the prominent changes in this issue is the monthly increase in total new driving licences by 0.6%, along with an increase in total new registered vehicles by 11.3% (compared to July 2024). On the other hand, total traffic violations decreased by a monthly rate of 8.6% (compared to July 2024), as well as a decrease in traffic accidents by 3.2% (compared to July 2024).

The demographic statistics revealed that the total population of Qatar has increase from 2.969 million at August 2023 to 3.054 million at August 2024 at an annual increase rate of change of 2.9%, and increased monthly by 9.6% (compared to July 2024).

Regarding to Vital Statistics, 2615 live births have been registered during August 2024. Also, an increase in the total Qatari live births by 1.8% comparing to last month. On the other hand, 196 deaths were recorded during the same period, a decrease of 11.3% compared to July 2024.

Moreover, August 2024 witnessed a monthly increase of 7.5% of total marriage contracts while it witnessed a monthly decrease of 37.3% of total divorce certificates. The total number of marriage contracts reached 374 marriage contracts and the total number of divorce certificates reached 153 cases.

As for the Social Security statements, reached 77 Million Qatari Riyals in August 2024, for 14387 beneficiaries, Recording a monthly decrease of 0.1% for the value of social security and a monthly increase of 0.01% for the number of beneficiaries of Social Security.

As for the Banking Sector; Total Broad Money Supply (M2) recorded about 731 Billion Qatari Riyals during August 2024, an annual increase of 6.7% compared with August 2023. On the other hand, cash equivalents; including Commercial Bank Deposits, attained for 1035 Billion Qatari Riyals during August 2024. The figure has recorded an annual increase of 11.6% compared to August 2023, when deposits recorded approximately 928 Billion Qatari Riyals.

Regarding the data of buildings permits issued, the total number of permits has reached 721 permits during August 2024, recording a monthly decrease of 2.7% and an annual increase of 8.3%.

The total number of registered new vehicles during August 2024 has reached 8605 new vehicles. The figure showed a monthly increase of 11.3% and it showed an annual increase of 14.0%.

Traffic accidents cases without counting the accidents without injuries, a total of 583 traffic cases were recorded during August 2024, showing a monthly decrease of 3.2% and an annual decrease by 1.0%. Light injuries are accounted for most traffic accidents cases during the same month, with 92%, followed by severe injuries by 6%. However, 11 deaths were recorded, equivalent to only 2% of total traffic accidents cases.

As for tourism, the total number of inbound visitors reached about 328 thousand, recording a monthly increase of 3.3% (compared to July 2024) and recorded an annual increase of 24.5% (compared to August 2023). The highest number of visitors was from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at 41%. As for visitors by type of port, the visitors via Air make up the highest percentage with 64% of the total number of visitors​.

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